He Loves Her, He Loves Her Not - An Echo Poem

He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not? – An Echo Poem By Darren White and Brian Johnston Darren White’s Original Poem – WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE PoetrySoup.com - Reprinted with permission “If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this.” - Rumi I lift my face to you, my anyone my only one, my love, And see your question unspoken but screamed all over you This is what love looks like What it looks like with only that one person I see you read you every line of you words without any meaning full of meaning I read you I see your face I taste the sun and the moon and all the stars in all the fireworks. Darren White  Brian Johnston’s Echo - I Do Not Doubt That Love Is Real PoetrySoup.com and PoemHunter.com I do not doubt that love is real, Just shy to offer up myself As shining gem that you might steal Or place in glass case on a shelf, Holding to the selfish view That somehow I am just for you. I know I cannot love like that, There's not just ONE that I desire, My temperament's more like a cat. But, looking still, I don’t conspire To say that I cannot be yours… Just “Love” is not all which secures. I doubt that 'Rumi' showed his face To only one and kept this vow, For “sexual wanting” has no place, 'No love' it may not disavow. “Like this” is just a moment’s urge Which untoward thoughts may quickly purge. In love though lives a higher plane, Where jealousy is just fool’s gold, And even dolts like me can gain By seeing that it's just blindfold! Integrity’s your only friend, It might just save you in the end. For sun and moon and stars all fade, Like vows that promise you’re the one, Like cocktails, we drink in the shade, The truth will out though your heart’s won, So chose a mate beloved by folk, Don’t sell your future, be a joke. Brian Johnston April 9, 2017